"Here is my account of the sighting:Location is Norman Okla.At 3:55am on 9-7-99 I and six other co-workers were waiting outside of our building that we clock in for work for our four o'clock shift to start. We were sitting on some benchs and a table and having the usual morning discussion about nothing when suddenly one woman co-worker asked out loud, What's that thing in the sky on fire? We half expected a joke pulled on us, but to our surprise; we were greeted with an incredible sight of a large object looking all the world like it was completely engulfed in flames flying across the northern sky traveling from the the northwest to the southeast. It took all of two minutes to travel across the sky that was visible to us before it disappeared over the horizon beyond some trees. It never lost altitude like a plane in trouble or even a meteor dropping from the heavens. It had to be very large to move that slow to us and still be able to see any detail. There was no sound whatsoever. It was round in shape but seem to change every few seconds. The UFO was orange in color but did have several yellow glowing spots on its side facing us as it was even with our party of witnesses. The back ended with a long tail of red flame, almost like a comet but no comet emitted red flame. Evryone was excited by this and I even ran out into the parking lot to watch if it were to go down and where. But of course it didn't go down. One guy even ran across a street to the east of us and almost ran head on into a sprinkler system that was on to water the lawn beyond. I reported this sighting to the National UFO Reporting Center and Art Bell of coast to coast radio program took an interview with me for his broadcast. After the interview, he inform me that what I didn't know was that four minutes later it was seen in Arkansas and Tennessee and a little later in Louisanna. Then at five am or so it was seen on radar over Florida and an airbase there scrammbled fighterplanes after it. A little later the squadron was called back because three of their number were losing power enough to make it too dangerous to fly any further. No explanation from the airforce followed except to say that in each state where seen it was listed as a soviet booster falling out of orbit and into our airspace to burn up...over four states...RIGHT.Never loseing altitude much...RIGHT! What was it really? And why cover it up? I've seen many things in the sky like falling stars and even an astroid. I even seen a plane completely engulfed in flame coming down to crash(at a tight arc of course), but nothing can compare to this. Not even a large astroid and it would have crashed into the earth long before it reached the ocean. So, do you believe the puny explanations for the general public to eat or do you wish to seek the truth?"
Here is an email sent to me by a woman in North West Arkansas about a sighting that she and her husband had not long ago. I would say that before this incident, they thought little of the subject of unidentified flying objects....
This is a letter that my cousin sent me about my sighting of 1999 Sept.7th. Also the various UFO sighting reports that happened from the evening of the 6th to the morning of the 7th throughout America.
The witness states:" Bright flames at rear bluish in color. Appeared to be crashing then it stopped and moved several times then it disappeared in what looked like a cloud. Hundreds of people in area saw it but we were told it was a Russian rocket destructing. But I saw it change directions?????? " Mace this was NOT A METEOR! Nor a Russian rocket booster, but the airforce tried to pass this thing off as a Russian rocket….i.e. the usual…SWAMP GAS. This device seems to have been a packet-ship bringing in at least 5 smaller ships. In central Florida (at Tavares) it was reported this way: "on the right windshield area i noticed a low large cigar shaped object with 3 lights (bright) HOVERING above the telephone poles…" This was probably the moment when witnesses in Tampa saw it stop and move several times. Thus we have the same description reported minutes of one another coming from two areas 70 miles apart! I add a report from 2015 UT from Tenn. Because it speaks of a cylinder also seen later in the day…perhaps the same machine but at a later time. In any event What you saw was a U.F.O.- major event sighting. A mass sighting seen over an area of 700 miles.
At 5:05am I noticed a "bead" of lights to my west, so I looked. They appeared to be moving so I got out of my car to get a better look, thinking they were water on a power line. There were at least 5 very distinct upright disks or spheres, the first being a pulsating green, and the other 4 behind it bright white (and all exactly the same size). The disks were spaced evenly apart and each had an INTENSE beam of light shining from one to the next. It had been raining so we knew the object(s) were under 2000' (clouds did not interrupt the light), and the object was traveling (apparently) the speed of a cessna aircraft, but was obiously much higher. The size of each disk was about 1/4 moon, or the size of your thumbnail at arms length, but MUCH brighter. I followed the object visually for over 20 seconds from my direct west, until it disapeared over my southern horizon (about where Disney World is). I've worked midnight shifts for over 3 years, the last 2 sitting exactly where I was; in my car facing south, and I have seen planets, meteors, low and high flying planes and jets, bugs, you name it...this was NONE of those things. By the way...it did not make ANY sound at all, OR leave a visible com-trail. My estimate is that if it was a single object would have HAD to be (at the apparent height; just under 2000 feet), at least a quarter of a mile long. Please take note that the "leading" disk was green and pulsing, there were NO "trails" of any kind, and there were VERY clearly visible light "beams" (equal in size to each disk/sphere), between each of the 5. Also note that we are in close proximity to Orlando International Airport, and this "thing" did not follow any usual approach pattern, or even go toward that airport. If it had, they would've needed to significantly lengthen the runways.
I have always been skeptical of this and never thought I would ever see a real UFO but this morning changed my faith direction. I have listened to Art Bell for years and have listened but was alway skeptical. However, after this experience I must tell my people at Church that I saw something that was beyond my comprehension no matter what the media saids to us. I found out from the Air Force and Tampa International Airport and they both confirmed tracking this. I am Chaplain for the ((data deleted))they received hundreds of calls about this. Pilots also saw it and I have yet to speak to anyone that saw it in person who believes it was just rocket fragments.
I am a security supv and was making a site check. I looked up towards the Western sky (10 o'clock above horizon) and observed 3 objects moving North to South. Distance out from my location was approx 5 miles West of me. I was at 14050 Boggs Dr. Miami, Fl Approx 144 street and SW 112 Ave. The 3 objects had a blueish-green color and at times had a yellow fire like tail. They were no in straight line center object was a little lower than front or rear object. I am familiar with aircraft landig patterns in area and these were not in that pattern. If I were to guess at their speed it would be 200 mph. Like a plane coming in for a landing type speed. Objects dissappered for approx 5-10 sec. Possibly going behind a cloud.
We were having some lightning storms down here. Then they reappeared in the same level continuing South-SW in direction. The objects had a "cone" effect like photos a a missle shot where missle causes a white cone to precede it. As said at times objects had a fire like tail. I told my wife when I got home as as ususal comment of being tired was brought up. On the news that evening local TV station (WSVN ch7, FOX affiliate) had a short blip on the sighting in Tampa,Fl. They also had a video clip. There video clip showed the center object higher than the front or rear object. I do not know if you can get copy of the clip Mr Rick Sanchez was the news achorman giving the report.They said officials said it was the booster rockets from a Russian space ship. I do listen to Art Bell. I heard of the supposed booster entry from last week. I heard the interview with the Dr/Pastor from Tampa, Fl. This is to let you know it was also seen here in Miami, Fl. Dr/Pastor said his time was prior to 0500, i think he said 0445 while getting newspaper. I observed objects at approx 0503 hr. These did not appear to be a meteor. I can not give a shape description beacuse of the distance away. News report said going for a Gulf of Mexico splash down. It is along way from where i saw objects to Gulf of Mexico. It is! 90 mile s to Naples where Gulf is. I am about 260 miles South of Tampa,Fl I like alot of people hesitate to report these because of the fall out of reports. But enough is enough. Hearing these other local reports I feel I need/must report. You have my e-mail address below. If further info needed contact me there and I will respond accordingly. object/objects.Not a weather balloon,not Venus,don't know what it was,but it was definitely a strange phenomonon..
At 05:40, 7 sept 99, my attention was drawn upwards towards the sky by bright lights that illuminated the ground. The object was traveling due north. It was very bright (reminded me of a night shuttle launch), for several seconds, dimmed for 1 or 2 seconds and returned to it's original brightness. It dimmed out shortly after that. The object was about the diameter of a pencil, held at arms length. The length of sighting spanned 20 - 25 degrees of sky. I've seen space debris reentering -- this was moving slower than those and much slower than meteors. A few seconds after it disappeared, a single light crossed the sky, almost on the exact same path (5 degrees off), verred east and back onto it's original course. The second object was a dull red color. It was about the size of a pencil lead held at arms length. The object maintained its color and illuminosity for the duration of the sighting. The 2nd object crossed the sky from horizon to horizon, as if chasing the 1st object. The Gulfport Police Dispatcher reported several citizens called it in also.
Mace, Gary Swimley, Larry Watson, and I had a sighting in Colorado back sometime between 1966-1968. We all forgot about it for several years and then someone asked and Gary and I remembered it. At the time there was an article in some Colorado newspaper and we all had a copy, but none of us has a copy any longer. In the late 90’s I worked in the same office with a woman that was the head of Oklahoma mufon and she had me write up a report on it which was on the national page for awhile about 8 years ago. I would love to find the newspaper article. We were not in the paper. We expected a crash meteor? missiles? We were not thinking UFO, but we had no idea what we saw except a moving star, that turned into a blazing meteor headed for earth across the valley opposite from Crestone, CO, that split into 3 blazing balls, we thought merv’d missile, that did not hit but flattened out the vertical dive into horizontal headed directly for us across 50 miles of valley as if aiming for us, and roared (sound) overhead. As it was heading down we watched, when it split into 3 we took partial cover peeking out from a house sized boulder, were dumbfounded when they headed straight for us. As they roared overhead leaving a fiery tale, we ran around the boulder thinking they would hit the Crestone mountains behind us and we tried to take shelter on the opposite side. They missed the mountain and we waited for some time expecting a crash, or a nuclear explosion, or a small earthquake from the impact of the bombs or were they missiles. This is a very brief account. The following is a brief paraphrased account of what was in the newspaper, “A couple of hours after we saw whatever we saw on the western side of the Crestones, on the eastern side of the Crestone Mountains, the prison saw three lights circling around the prison. They were concerned about a prison break. They called in highway patrol that could not catch the lights in the sky so they brought in national guard helicopters who couldn’t catch them, so they called the air force that scrambled interceptors. Just as the interceptors got a radar lock on the objects they climbed straight up and out into space.” Over 100 people saw the lights on the eastern side of the Crestones including prison guards, highway patrol, national guard helicopter pilots. The Air Force pilots only saw radar images that were impossibly fast.” In the 1980’s I worked with the last member of Project Blue Book who was then in a different job. He took many UFO files home with him rather than destroy them when they closed the office. The only way anything got reported to Blue Book was if an Air Force Commander was willing to end his career to confirm a sighting. The sighting was then investigated and whenever possible explained away. Most incidents were never reported including the one I describe here. If the local commander refused to confirm a UFO sighting, then Project Blue Book would not even enter it into the list of potentials. If the local commander did report a UFO he was relieved of command. Lynn Clark, 2nd Generation
WOMAN VIDEOTAPES UFOs IN HARRAH, OKLAHOMA On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 2 a.m., eyewitness S. Smith spotted "a light that flashes blue, white and red and hangs in the east-southeast sky" in Harrah, Oklahoma (population 4,719). "It was there for a while in the night sky, and then it just disappeared," she reported, "I finally decided to film it a few nights ago (October 16, 2002--J.T.) I filmed for 15 minutes." "When I brought it (the videotape) in and plugged it into the TV, and did a frame-by-frame view of the object, enlarged onscreen. I was amazed. What I could not see with the naked eye was 9 balls of light all lined up in a row." "Then the next frame showed a triangle of three balls of light. Then a shape that resembled a saucer. Then several more balls of light lined up in a row. Each frame had a brilliant glow of beautiful colors in a halo around these lights." "My son gave me a possible explanation that the thing is spinning faster than the camera can film at the moment." Harrah, Okla. is on Highway 62 approximately 27 miles (43 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City. (Email Form Report)